Surgical safety appliance.



No. 686,338. Patented Nov. |2-, I901. A. w. READY.

SURGICAL SAFETY APPLIANCE.

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NiTED ST TES ATENT FFICEQ AVERY \V. READY, OF JERSEY CITY, JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO FANNIE L. READY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, AND EDWARD I-I.ROSS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SURGICAL SAFETY APPLIANCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,338, dated November12, 1901. Application filed March 18 1901. Serial No. 51,634.. (Nomodel.)

To all whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AVERY W. READY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SurgicalSafety Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the class of sleevelike safety appliancesdesigned to prevent children and other persons who may be suffering fromeczema, smallpox, delirium, and the like from injuring their faces orscalps by scratching them; and the object is to provide an appliancewhich will insure perfect free dom of the circulation, free room for theplay of the muscles and growth of the arm, and good ventilation, whileit will prevent the touching of the face or head with the hands.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of theinvention, Figure 1 is a View of the appliance as a whole on arelatively small scale. Fig. 2 is a view on a larger scale, illustratingthe application of the appliance in use. Fig. 3 includes two sectionalviews of one of the tubular sleeves 0r sleeve-like protectors.

The appliance consists of two like tubular protectors A, connected by abelt B, provided with shoulder-straps b. Preferably the protector A willbe cylindrical, as seen in the lower view, Fig. 3, which is across-section, and will be of celluloid, although other light and stifimaterial will serve-as, for example, aluminium, stiff papier-mach, andthe like. The sleeve will be shaped at its upper end to fit up under thearm at the armpit-that is, it will be hollowed out at a on the innerside or next the body, while the outer side will be elevated, as at a.It will be long enough to extend down the arm to or over the wristjoint,as indicated in Fig. 2, and by preference will have in it apertures orperforations a suitably situated to secure ventilation. However, theprotector is designed to fit some what loosely, so that air maycirculate about the arm, and so that circulation'and growth may not beimpeded.

Near the upper end of the protector, on the side which is to be next thebody, two slits a are formed to receive the belt B. This belt, threadedthrough said slits, encircles the body below the armpits somewhat, asseen in Fig. 2, and the straps I) go over the shoulders. The belt B andstraps b may be of webbing or any other suitable flexible material.

At its lower or outer end a the margin of the protector A will be smoothand rounded, so that the patient cannot cut or injure himself on theedge of it, and where the material of the protector is quite thin theremay be a thickened bead formed on the margin at a, as seen in the upperview, Fig. 3, which is in part a longitudinal mid-section.

I am well aware that it has been proposed to prevent a patient fromscratching his face by fitting a short tubular coned metal splinttightly over the elbow and securing it at both ends to'the wearerssleeve by safety-pins; but such a device,while stiffening theelbow-joint, does not prevent the patient from reaching his scalp andtearing it. Moreover, such a de-' vice seriously interferes with thecirculation, the growth, and the movements of the muscles,andventilation is wholly unprovided for. My appliance is so constructed andadapted as to permit full freedom and muscular play except to the extentof permitting the patient to reach his head or face with his hands.

The belt B may be connected to the sleeves A in any convenient manner;but the point of attachment should be near the upper end of the sleeve,so as to avoid too great a tendency to pin the arms of the patient tohis body.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. An appliance for thepurpose specified, comprising two sleeves or arm-covers of light, stiffmaterial of such dimensions as to loosely inclose the respective armsfrom the armpits to the wrists, and a belt connecting said sleeves neartheir upper ends and adapted to encircle the body below the armpits.

2. An appliance for the purpose specified, comprising the two liketubular sleeves or arm-covers A, of stiif material, each being hollowedout at a to fit under the arm at the armpit and extending down to thewrist-joint and fitting loosely over the arms of the wearer,

sleeves and securing them to the body, substantially as set forth.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 14th day ofMarch, 1901, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

AVERY W. READY.

lVitnesses:

HENRY (JONNETT, PETER A. Boss.

